ATCA helps solve mystery of the blue flashes
December 23, 2025
Along with images from ground-based and space telescopes, researchers now think these blue flashes are caused by huge black holes tearing an entire star apart in just a few days.
New supercomputer shows what’s possible with ASKAP data
August 10, 2022
Australia’s newest supercomputer, Setonix, at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Perth has produced a highly detailed image of a supernova remnant immediately after the computing system’s first stage was […]
Einstein’s theory passes rigorous 16-year tests
December 14, 2021
An international team has used telescopes around the world, including our Parkes radio telescope, Murriyang, to complete the most challenging tests yet of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The team, […]
Breakthrough Listen releases analysis of previously detected signal
October 27, 2021
An intriguing candidate signal picked up last year by the Breakthrough Listen project using the Parkes telescope has been subjected to intensive analysis that suggests it is unlikely to originate […]
CSIRO’s Dish to support one of the first commercial Moon landings
March 26, 2021
The iconic Parkes radio telescope, owned and operated by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, will help businesses to literally reach for the Moon by providing ground station support for one […]
Astronomers witness the dragging of space-time in stellar cosmic dance
February 3, 2020
An international team of astrophysicists led by Professor Matthew Bailes from the ARC Centre of Excellence of Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) has found exciting new evidence for ‘frame-dragging’ after tracking […]
Astronomers witness slow death of nearby galaxy
October 31, 2018
Astronomers from ANU and CSIRO have witnessed, in the finest detail ever, the slow death of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), which is gradually losing its power to form stars. […]
Synchronised telescope dance puts limits on mysterious flashes in the sky
October 31, 2018
The ASKAP and Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescopes at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australian have taken a coordinated approach to look for mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs). While […]
Aussie telescope almost doubles known number of mysterious ‘fast radio bursts’
October 17, 2018
Australian researchers using a CSIRO radio telescope in Western Australia have nearly doubled the known number of ‘fast radio bursts’— powerful flashes of radio waves from deep space. More information.
Astronomers observe the magnetic field of the remains of Supernova 1987A
July 2, 2018
For the first time, astronomers have directly observed the magnetism in one of astronomy’s most studied objects: the remains of Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), a dying star that appeared in […]
Discovery in the sky with nanodiamonds
June 11, 2018
A faint and mysterious stream of microwaves emanating from star systems far out in the Milky Way could be caused by tiny diamonds. New research led by researchers at Cardiff […]